The+Impact+of+Roe+vs.+Wade

If you look at a graph of maternal mortality in the United States in the 20th Century, you'd never be able to spot when abortion was legalized from the change in rates of maternal deaths.

People and organizations who point out that there were more deaths per year before //Roe// than after are giving accurate data, but if they're using their numbers to claim that legalization of abortion was the cause of this change, they're manipulating the data to give a false impression. You can pick virtually any point on the chart and there will be fewer deaths per year before than after. Legalization didn't even cause a blip.

Clearly something other than legalization was saving women's lives. And if you don't have that in mind, it's easy to believe what abortion supporters say -- that it was legalization, not all the many improvements in health, hygiene, nutrition, and medicine -- that had such a dramatic impact on maternal mortality.